The use of self-destructing messages in the management of government business by ministers could become prohibited due to a legal challenge that is supported by transparency campaigners and university archivists.

The union will launch a hotline for Amazon employees to report workplace practices and conditions as pressure mounts on the tech company to recognise trade unions.

Indie darling Hades won Best Game along with four other BAFTAs, while Sony Playstation exclusive titles picked up a host of awards as well.

Facebook intends to build a child-friendly version of Instagram to be used by children under the age of 13, allowing them to ‘safely use Instagram for the first time’.

Sometimes, the simplest things can be cause for laughter. Using a Markov chain with a corpus of characters, this was the goal of the MozFest 2021 session ‘Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect’, led by creative coder, Hay Kranen.

This Mozilla Festival session explored the hybrid nature of events, using a groundbreaking festival as an example of what can be achieved when art and technology come together.

Internet censorship has become a topic of discussion in recent years as social media websites or apps are blocked in different countries. OONI is an organisation focused on highlighting such censorship and held a session at MozFest to discuss this!

Showcased to Mozilla Festival attendees, The Emoji Story is a delightful documentary charting the history, creation process, and future of the little icons we know and love. 

‘The future of podcasting is adaptive, open and data ethical’ aimed to provide an insight into what podcasting may look like in the near-future, using Object-Based Media. As it turns out, this future is exciting, and may be closer than it seems!

AI voices are now part of our everyday lives, but how are they designed? Mozilla Festival’s event ‘A Primer on Conversational Voice Design’ gave us the lowdown. 

‘Recommenders with a mission: towards a more diverse internet’ focused on the way in which news is recommended to us as readers, and how news diversity can be a complex topic of discussion.

Digital Grassroots a youth- led organisation screens their short film ‘On this Side of The Web’ at this year's first virtual MozFest.